Meaning of Luxuriancy | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The province abounds with vast forests of timber; the plains are covered with a surprising luxuriancy of vegetables, flowers, and flowering shrubs, diffusing the most delicious fragrance.”

“Olivia, now about eighteen, had that luxuriancy of beauty with which painters generally draw⟳ Hebe; open⟳, sprightly, and commanding.”

“In short, we should have⟳ been continually endeavoring, following the luxuriancy of female imagination, to render more charming the sweet abodes of love⟳ and friendship; whilst our heroes, changing their swords into plough-shares, and engaged in more substantial, more profitable labors, were clearing land⟳, raising cattle and corn, and doing every thing becoming good farmers; or, to express⟳ it more poetically, "Taming the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as they conquer'd Spain:" By which I would be understood to mean⟳ the Havannah, where, vanity apart, I am told both of them did their duty, and a little more, if a man can in such a case be said to do more.”

“A great luxuriancy of trees of unknown species, was soon observed to overspread the land⟳, whence unknown birds of beautiful plumage came off in flocks to the vessel, and gave the appearance of a pleasing dream⟳ to their unexpected deliverance.”

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